some other point decided to put their fists up and do something that donald trump wouldn t be attacking them and people wouldn t be complaining, and i don t believe that. so i think the problem is they re protesting. it wouldn t be as clean as a political issue without the flag and national anthem weren t in play. i m going to give you a raw political analysis. this is a complete and total winner for the white house. in the national surveys, it looks good. but if you look at the surveys in the places he has to hold on, ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, among his people in those states it s not even close. that s why they re coming back to it and i suspect they re going to keep coming back to it. the owner of the cowboys, jerry jones is now saying any of his players who don t stand for the national anthem, should be benched. the players could toss a penalty flag on that. we ll get that in a moment.
coming back to it. the another twist to the nfl protests. jerry jones says any of his players who don t stand for the national anthem should be benched. players could toss a penalty flag on this move. we ll get that in a moment. you know who likes to be in control? this guy. check it out! self-appendectomy! oh, that s really attached. that s why i rent from national. where i get the control to choose any car in the aisle i want, not some car they choose for me. which makes me one smooth operator. ah! still a little tender. (vo) go national. go like a pro. there was an old woman who lived in a shoe. she had so many children she had to buy lots of groceries.
the dallas cowboys are known as america s team, and they weighed in on the controversy that s gripping the nation right now by kneeling before the national anthem played at monday night s nfl game against the arizona cardinals. both teams locked arms in unity during the anthem. president trump, of course, you recall reignited the issue last week when he said players who don t stand for the anthem should be fired. he s tweeted about it more than a dozen times since then. now, team members of the white house, including the vice president, are coming to president trump s defense. cnn s jim acosta reports. reporter: critics threw the penalty flag immediately. wouldn t you love to see one of these nfl owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, get that son of a bmitc off the field right now. he s fired. he s fired!
and we re back with the breaking news in our politics lead. president trump s lawyer is responding to a new wall street journal report that special council robert mueller has impanelled a grand jury in the russia investigation right near washington, d.c. in a statement ty cobb said quote, the white house favors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly. the white house is committed to fully cooperating with mr. mueller, unquote. my panel s back with me. phil, your reaction. well, that s more of a traditional lawyer s statement than the kind we saw from president trump s previous lawyer. doesn t really say much, obviously. can we throw a penalty flag for just a moment here. the white house favors anything, except the president s son couldn t search his e-mails for a year and couldn t tell us what happened in the meeting until the new york times released the e-mails. give me a break, that s ridiculous. i just spoke with ty and he said they did not know anything
service? he s a comey friend. not accurate. hillary clinton didn t give her, the wife, the money. it was the political action committee for the governor of virginia. penalty flag here. let s understand how the fbi works. the deputy director is a civil servant, someone who comes up through the process who serves as an advisor. he s supposed to be an enemy of comey? my point earlier was, if you want to fire him, your cause is your spouse is participating by choice in the american political process. so the message is if you serve in the federal government your spouse can t participate in politics? this is about the president drip, drip, drip, trying to get to the attorney general out because he s too much of a si y